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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Homelessness and forced intimacy: they're related

Petula Dvorak, a columnist for the Washington Post,
has written a lot about homelessness in the DC area. She has discussed both the city budget
stinginess, which she says may send abused women back to their husbands sometimes,
and the fact that rapid real estate development is driving the poor people out,
as in this column here.

The next area where this will happen is NE
Washington, along H Street and the streetcar line. It happened a few years ago with the building
of Nationals Park (and now a soccer stadium).
It will happen if RFK is raised for an Olympic stadium (all private
money).

One issue that one of my other blogs (the main one)
has taken up is “radical hospitality” – partially the old Biblical idea that
people should be able to house strangers – and idea that we saw after Hurricane
Katrina in some parts of the country, less so after Sandy.

In Arlington, a local church serves food to the
homeless every third Saturday, and seems to use over 200 volunteers who show up
just for this event.

I’ll change the subject, but not that much, to
another subject: the degree of intimacy
people take for granted in marriage. It
was linked Saturday morning on AOL’s home page, “Ten signs your guy shouldn’t
ignore”, link here. I was struck by how “ordinary” people have
to let very sensitive aspects about their bodies be the business of other
people, of course their spouses. One of
them was “getting it up”. Another was a
pot belly. About the only thing not on
the list was “balding legs”. Of course,
in my mind, this links to a culture where people are expected to share their
bodies – blood donation, of course, which I was cut out of in the 80s, but
bigger things like kidney donation while still alive, or even partial liver
donation. Given the physical humiliation
of my upbringing, sharing my bod is such a blasé communal fashion isn’t on the
table. But many people don’t really have
a choice.

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